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Although it is not uncommon for various scandals to be exposed in the US military, the recently exposed scandal has refreshed people's lower bounds: an American officer openly took off his clothes while stationed overseas. dance club and was drugged and robbed. Regarding this scandal, the superior officer in charge not only did not deal with it seriously, but also helped him cover it up, making the top brass of the U.S. Army very angry.
According to Global Times citing the British " Daily Mail ", the American "Stars and Stripes" and many other foreign media reported on May 1, recently, the US Army released an investigation report, completely exposing an order. The U.S. Army loses face in a huge scandal. This incident occurred in September last year, when the "No Mercy" Aviation Battalion under the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade of the US Army was sent to Poland for a nine-month overseas deployment. It is reported that this aviation force is an elite force flying AH-64 "Apache" armed helicopters. Logically speaking, such serious disciplinary problems should not occur, but it did happen.
During the deployment, some soldiers of the unit went on a short trip to the Polish city of Gdansk near the station. However, what they did not expect was that these lawless US soldiers took advantage of the trip and went to a local bar to celebrate a respected man. On the 40th birthday of Sergeant Major , dozens of people got drunk, which was obviously a serious violation of discipline. However, several US military officers were not completely drunk, but went to a nearby strip club with a pornographic nature to continue "drinking". Among these officers is Major Matthew Connor, pilot of the US military helicopter gunship HT4.
(Matthew Connor)
As a result, the service staff in the club focused on the "well-dressed" Connor, deliberately instigated him to drink a drink containing hallucinogenic drugs, and then defrauded him of the money in his wallet. Thousands of dollars, plus maxed out his credit cards. According to the investigation results of the U.S. Army, Major Connor spent a "huge sum" of 50,000 yuan that night.
On the next day, other US officers and soldiers discovered that Connor was missing. Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Fix, the US military officer in charge of leading the team, urgently organized a rescue team to search for Connor's whereabouts. After a search, they found Connor unconscious in another hotel. Because of the short-term sequelae caused by drugs and alcohol, the US military had to cancel his next flight mission, causing routine training to be seriously affected.
(Matthew Fix)
Once this incident was exposed, it quickly aroused widespread criticism of the US military from all walks of life, and the top brass of the US Army were extremely dissatisfied with it. Because he failed to report the incident in time, Lieutenant Colonel Fix, who tried to cover Connor, was disciplined and reprimanded, and eventually he chose to leave the army. U.S. military spokesman Joseph Buccino also said that some officers will face further penalties, which will determine whether they can continue to serve in the military.
This is not the first time that such a huge scandal has been exposed in the U.S. military recently. Not long ago, the famous " West Point " - the U.S. Army Military Academy, was exposed in the largest scandal in 45 years: as many as 73 people More than 60 elite officer cadets will be kicked out after they were caught cheating on exams. You know, the creed of West Point Military Academy is "honesty." This incident seriously damaged the school's social image.
In recent years, various scandals have emerged in the US military, which have had a serious negative impact on the social image of the US military. But in the final analysis, the reason is that the "free culture" pursued by the US military has caused many US officers and soldiers to lose their basic sense of discipline. Whether it is the rape of local women by US troops stationed in Japan or the current incident of a US military officer being drugged while visiting a strip club, these are all manifestations of the US military's serious lack of discipline. Countless famous generals at home and abroad have said a common truth, that is, an army without discipline will not have strong combat effectiveness. If the US military continues to trample on discipline like this, sooner or later it will be beaten again by a truly disciplined army.
